商务英语阅读

商务英语阅读
In 1993 ,New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on (饮料)containers. Within
a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminium cans and glass and plastic bottles.
Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new
products,but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it would be
buried in land fills (垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately,
there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.
Today,one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled (回收利用)in the United States. The
reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying
discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts,paint brushes,etc.
As the New York experience shows，recycling involves more than simply separating
valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody
figures out how to give it a second life and until economic arrangements exist to give that
second life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling,
throwaway actually depress prices for used materials. 丟丟,丟?'丟丗, .仭 ... 4 ,
Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing
local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas佱the East Coast
especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option.
For every ton of waste recycled,a city avoids paying for its disposal, which,in parts of
New York, amounts to savings of more than 100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local
economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries
that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
6. The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is ?
A. to sell them at a profitable price
B. how to turn them into useful things
C. how to reduce their recycling costs
D. to lower the prices for used materials
15题，答案很明显，但是选项很有迷惑性。

答案是第二段的最后一句：In the last eight years,
Concordia has reduced its workforce by more than 80.000 people?- or 35% -on a voluntary
basis, with further downsizing anticipated.减少了80000员工（或者说减少了35%的员工），预期
还会减少更多。

A选项是对的，made redundant是前面某套题目阅读的第五部分考过的词组；B不
对，没有完成（completed），因为预期还会裁减更多（with further downsizing anticipated）；
C也不对，迷惑性最大，reduced its workforce of 80.000，用了介词of，所以这句的意思是一共就
80000员工，而实际情况是减少了80000员工；D不对，35%的员工被裁减，都是在自愿的基础上
的，而不是离开的人中有35%是自愿的。